SHILLONG, May 21 ? Meghalaya government today rejected NCP general secretary PA Sangma?s claim of being a facilitator of talks between the Centre and insurgents, saying that the Centre did not authorise anyone to facilitate talks, between some insurgent groups of the state and New Delhi, reports PTI.

?We have received a letter from Union Home Secretary N Gopalswamy saying the government of India has authorised nobody to negotiate with militants of Meghalaya,? state?s home minister R G Lyngdoh told a press conference here.

Sangma, a Lok Sabha member from Meghalaya?s Garo Hills region and...

GUWAHATI, May 21 ? There was a time during the Assam movement when people of Assam left that the All Assam Students? Union (AASU) could do no wrong, but now its image is under a scanner and the organisation is facing allegations like the same set of leaders holding on to their posts for years, failure to deal properly with the problems of the students etc. It is a fact that not many new faces are coming up to take the leadership of the AASU, the biggest students? organisation of the State and the organisation also failed to hold its annual conferences regularly to elect new executive bodies...

GUWAHATI, May 20? Forest officials arrested a poacher, wanted in connection with poaching of rhino horns in Nagaon Wildlife Division of Assam recently, official sources said here.

The arrested man, identified as one Md Faizul, was arrested from Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary under Nagaon wildlife division for killing a rhino and removing its horns.

The rhino had been killed by poachers by electrocution one year back, Divisional Forest Officer Chandan Bora said. A squad of forest personnel had chased the gang soon after the poaching and killed two poachers but two others managed to escape, Bora...

Guwahati, May 20: Ulfa ideologue and the outfit?s vice-chairman, Pradip Gogoi, today said a military operation by Bhutan to dismantle militant camps there would be the ?wrong move?.

Reacting to a report in The Telegraph today about Thimphu?s plans to dismantle all camps of the Ulfa and the NDFB by November, the jailed militant leader told newspersons outside a Tada court here that Bhutan could not expect to resolve the issue through aggression.

The Ulfa alone has nine camps in Bhutan.

Gogoi, who has been languishing in jail in Guwahati since his arrest in Calcutta in 1997, said Bhutan should...

SHILLONG, May 20 ? NCP General Secretary P A Sangma today said he was working as a ?facilitator? of talks between the Centre and some insurgent groups of Meghalaya with the knowledge of the Union Government, reports PTI. ??I am doing my bit as a facilitator to bring some insurgent groups for a dialogue with the Centre and I reiterate that I am doing it with the knowledge of the Government of India??, Sangma, a Lok Sabha member from Meghalaya, told reporters here without naming the militant outfits. He said if any politician took any initiative to bring insurgent groups to the negotiating table...